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Tipping the Scales

What would a conservative Supreme Court mean for the country?

Yesterday’s Parties

Anthony Powell: Dancing to the Music of Time

by Hilary Spurling


Sisters in Arms

Is the #MeToo “moment” the beginning of a new feminism?

In a Day’s Work: The Fight to End Sexual Violence Against America’s Most Vulnerable Workers

by Bernice Yeung


Imaginary Conspiracies

The Diaries of Emilio Renzi: Formative Years

by Ricardo Piglia, translated from the Spanish by Robert Croll, with an introduction by Ilan Stavans


Dancing in Chains

Dancing Bears: True Stories of People Nostalgic for Life Under Tyranny

by Witold Szabłowski, translated from the Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones


Ritzy Business

Ritz and Escoffier: The Hotelier, the Chef, and the Rise of the Leisure Class

by Luke Barr


Korean Souls

Han Kang’s ‘Human Acts’

Human Acts

by Han Kang, translated from the Korean and with an introduction by Deborah Smith


Oh, Canada!

Common Ground

by Justin Trudeau

Canada’s Odyssey: A Country Based on Incomplete Conquests

by Peter H. Russell

Could It Happen Here?: Canada in the Age of Trump and Brexit

by Michael Adams

Maximum Canada: Why 35 Million Canadians Are Not Enough

by Doug Saunders


Mapping Down Under

A Long Way from Home

by Peter Carey


Dr. Death

‘Asperger’s Children: The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna’ by Edith Sheffer

Asperger’s Children: The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna

by Edith Sheffer


Loving with a Stiff Upper Lip

The Only Story

by Julian Barnes


Lovers of Wisdom

A new translation of ‘Lives of the Eminent Philosophers’ by Diogenes Laertius

Lives of the Eminent Philosophers

by Diogenes Laertius, translated from the Greek by Pamela Mensch, edited by James Miller


A Mug’s Game

Property: Stories Between Two Novellas

by Lionel Shriver


A Work of Art

On real and fake snapshots

The Dark Side

Last Stories

by William Trevor


Reveling in Discomfort

The Yangtze Valley and Beyond: An Account of Journeys in China, Chiefly in the Province of Sze Chuan and among the Man-tze of the Somo Territory

by Mrs. J.F. Bishop (Isabella L. Bird), with an introduction by Dervla Murphy


Will the Center Hold?

After Ireland: Writing the Nation from Beckett to the Present

by Declan Kiberd


A Spitting Image

‘Like Life: Sculpture, Color, and the Body (1300–Now)’ at the Met Breuer

Like Life: Sculpture, Color, and the Body (1300–Now)

an exhibition at the Met Breuer, New York City, March 21–July 22, 2018


House of the Dead

Colm Tóibín’s ‘House of Names’

House of Names

by Colm Tóibín


Imagining the Real

Laurent Binet’s ‘The Seventh Function of Language’

The Seventh Function of Language

by Laurent Binet, translated from the French by Sam Taylor

La vie professionelle de Laurent B.

by Laurent Binet

HHhH

by Laurent Binet, translated from the French by Sam Taylor


Hell Can Be Beautiful

Santiago Gamboa’s ‘Return to the Dark Valley’

Return to the Dark Valley

by Santiago Gamboa, translated from the Spanish by Howard Curtis


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